Dawinderpal Sahota, Computing, Friday 3 September 2010 at 16:19:00
NASA's preferred headset provider uses disk fragmentation software
Headset manufacturer Plantronics has deployed Diskeeper software to prevent The company has installed the product across its 250 associate offices across ?Prior to having Diskeeper, we were like a lot of companies; we had hard disk He said the problem of performance slowdown lies in disk fragmentation. The changes that are saved are often stored at a location on the hard disk ?Brand new PCs run like a dream, but every month they slow down. It?s so In order to combat those problems, Jones ran a trial to evaluate the Nineteen out of the 20 people who trialled the product found their computers ?This worked incredibly well,? he said. ?The aspect that I find most useful ?Diskeeper is constantly defragging your system, using spare system resource, He added that the product has caused an increase in the lifespan of all PCs Plantronics? most notable claim to fame is that moon landing astronaut Neil
disk fragmentation slowing down its PCs.
Europe, at a price of ?�20-something per user, per year?, according to Philip
Jones, IT manager at Plantronics Europe.
failure, data corruption and performance slowdown. Performance slowdown is very
common, at work or at home, we?ve all experienced this,? explained Jones.
Fragmentation happens to a hard disk over time as the user saves, modifies, or
deletes files.
that is different from the original file, and further changes are saved to even
more locations. Over time, both the file and the hard disk itself become
fragmented, and the computer slows down as it has to search in many different
places just to open a file.
gradual that most users don?t even realise it until they see someone else with a
new PC.?
Diskeeper 9 product using 20 randomly-selected PCs. Half of the employees were
told that they were going to be testing Diskeeper on their computers and the
other half ran the test blind.
faster and more reliable. Encouraged by these results, Jones rolled out
Diskeeper's newest release, Diskeeper 10, across Plantronics' European
operation.
is the real-time defrag feature.
and there is no need to schedule or even worry about fragmentation, and it has
now almost disappeared into the background ? speeding up performance, and
requiring very little of our time to manage.?
from three to four years.
Armstrong made his ?one small step for man? speech over a Plantronics headset.
Full story at http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2269204/headset-maker-stops-pc-slowdown
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